[ILUG] Mandrake 10 and kde 3.2

[kevin]

Well, much to my embarrassment the problem seems to have gone away. We 
upgraded two desktops from 9.1 to 10.0 and they were both appallingly slow on 
opening menus and applications (several seconds to open the main desktop 
menu). After using them for a while they seem to have settled down.. not a 
very satisfactory outcome as I still don't know why they were slow in the 
first place. I have a couple fo users using them today....lets see what 
happens, so far all I heard is that they think the new desktop is pretty! I 
guess thats what users want....

Kevin.

On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 8:59 am, John Allen wrote:
On Friday 02 July 2004 15:48, kevin wrote:
> We have been trying out Mandrake 10. Everything appears VERY slow. The main
> kde menu takes several seconds top appear whereas the main kde menu in 9.1
> kde 3.1 was immediate. Applications take several seconds to appear when
> they use to be fast. Anyone any idea why? I thought kde 3.2 and 2.6 kernel
> where mean't to be faster? I have checked for rogue services but this was

Well I'm using 10.0 all the time with KDE 3.2, and its fast. I do have 512MB,
but I doubt that is the problem.

I'd hazard a guess that it may be a DMA problem.

# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0

Make sure using_dma is on.

> an update and all the services are the same as when we had 9.1. Also the
> machine is an Athlon XP2000 with 256MB ram so we should be OK for
> resources.

Indeed.

> Kevin.

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John Allen,                          mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-13mdk
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